Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Call of Duty: Black Ops III deploys players into a dark, twisted future where a new breed of Black Ops soldier emerges and the lines are blurred between our own humanity and the technology we created to stay…
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is an adventure developed by Treyarch, released 6 November 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 7.6 hrs to finish.
What Call of Duty: Black Ops III is
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is an adventure game developed by Treyarch and released in 2015. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on IW Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
On October 27, 2065, the game begins with the Player and their new CO, Jacob Hendricks, infiltrating an NRC Airbase in Ethiopia to rescue Egyptian Prime Minister Said from the NRC with the assistance of John Taylor and his team of cybernetically enhanced soldiers part of the Winslow Accord Black Cyber-Ops Division. Needing to distract the NRC, the Player and Hendricks, along with Winslow Accord Special Forces Team Alpha, use the base's D.E.A.D system to shoot down an NRC plane. Disguised as NRC soldiers, the Player and Hendricks manage to infiltrate the base and rescue Said from the NRC, although they discover there are more prisoners than their Intel provided. The team soon become…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 98 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Call of Duty series
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is the 131st of 204 entries we hold in the Call of Duty series. The next entry was Call of Duty: Black Ops III - Gold Edition in 2015. Its critic score of 77 is 4 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Collection 1 at 90.
How it was received
Call of Duty: Black Ops III holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 72, across 606 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7.6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. It also needs around 100GB of free storage, which is a real consideration on a 512GB drive.
What it launched against
Call of Duty: Black Ops III launched on 6 November 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition and Star Wars Battlefront. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, Star Wars Battlefront.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Call of Duty: Black Ops III yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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